The previous posts in the series explained the basic elements of distance and trajectory computations in the Legacy Worlds Beta 6 universe; this final post about travel and distances puts these elements together, explaining how and when they apply. Indeed, while players will get the final say about their fleets’ trajectories, some details remain to [...]
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Travel and distances (4/5): interstellar travel
The previous posts in this series discussed generalities, stellar systems and special objects such as nebulae. The last element that needs to be considered to describe travel in the Legacy Worlds universe is actual interstellar travel. Because of the structure of the universe in the new version, it is impossible to describe interstellar travel as [...]
Travel and distances (3/5) : special objects
While the first post discussed generalities and the second post discussed travel and distances within stellar systems, this third post about travel and in-game distances will describes the structures associated with other, “special” objects which can be found in one of the universe’s layers – namely black holes, nebulae and supergates.
Travel and distances (2/5) : stellar systems
In the previous post about travel and distances, we discussed the generalities about travel in the Legacy Worlds universe. This new post in the series describes the structure of stellar systems and the travel rules that apply. Stellar systems have two “levels” of structure. First there is a general structure, common to all stellar systems; [...]
Travel and distances (1/5) : basics
Many types of objects in Legacy Worlds Beta 6 will have to travel the universe from one point to another. While this set obviously includes ships, many other elements such as probes, resource extractors or migrating populations will need to travel. It is therefore necessary to write rules regarding the method used to travel from [...]
Space-time drilling
Space-time drilling is a technology allowing an alliance to bypass the standard fleet movements rules by jumping to a layer directly without having to go through supergates (it doesn’t allow players to jump to a different protection level tho). While this very powerful technology has quite a few inconvenients (it costs a lot and presents [...]